Ideally, a Biden administration — which looks increasingly likely — would keep Trump’s three growth-enhancing policies and jettison his trade initiatives.
Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
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Mark Cayer: A low barrier public shelter is not the cure-all for homelessness
Homelessness is a statewide issue that more significantly impacts service center communities, like Lewiston.
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Frank Kieliszek: Celebrate democracy in action
I have had the privilege of acting as a volunteer poll watcher. I am impressed by the work of all I saw. Voters with physical disabilities work hard to vote in person. I saw community members assisting new voters. It is democracy in action. Municipal clerks and their poll workers have been working hard since […]
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Froma Harrop: Actually, the Democratic Party never moved left
Only 15 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters describe themselves as “very liberal,” according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. More surprisingly, 52 percent of Democratic voters identified as moderate or conservative.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dear Jared Kushner
How edifying to discover, 401 years later, that the problem was us all along. Freedom, education, wealth, health, not being murdered by mobs … we simply didn’t want them enough. Lazy us.
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Sororities and fraternities are finally confronting their racist past
Simmering tensions between national organizations and chapter members that have long existed are erupting as members leak communications and share stories of racism, homophobia and elitism via Instagram accounts and elsewhere.
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Bacon- and chicken-scented masks are here and, really, you shouldn’t be surprised
Barbara Kahn, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, senses that the bacon- and chicken-scented accessories are something of a novelty, likening them to the “flame-grilled” cologne that Burger King offered in Japan.
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Sun Journal takes home 38 state awards, including Freedom of Information honors
The Sun Journal picked up 38 Maine Press Association Awards at the annual newspaper conference, which was held Saturday night as a virtual event. The Maine Sunday Telegram was named the best Sunday newspaper of the year and the Portland Press Herald was named the best daily newspaper of the year. The Central Maine newspapers […]